Aphonogram is agrapheme i.e. one or more written characters which represent aphoneme (speech sound),[1] rather than a bigger linguistic unit such asmorphemes or words.[2] For example, "igh" is an English-language phonogram that represents the/aɪ/ sound in "high". Whereas the wordphonemes refers to the sounds, the wordphonogram refers to the letter(s) that represent that sound.
Phonograms contrast withlogograms, which representwords andmorphemes (meaningful units of language), anddeterminatives, silent characters used to marksemantic categories.
Awriting system that consists of phonograms shows phonography and can be called phonographic.[2]
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